Comments on: Keep an Eye on Your Software Updates http://gigaom.com/collaboration/keep-an-eye-on-your-software-updates/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James Kahan http://gigaom.com/collaboration/keep-an-eye-on-your-software-updates/#comment-75252 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:52:52 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3307#comment-75252 If you have run Monolingual or XSlimmer against your Office install you will get an error stating that the software to update cannot be found. Here is the fix from Andrew Murton on the forum at thesource.ofallevil.com:

1) Download the 12.1.1 update directly from Microsoft’s Mactopia website.
2) Mount the downloaded DMG file and copy the installer to your desktop.
3) Right-click the installer and select “show package contents”
4) Navigate to Office 2008 12.1.1
Update/Contents/Resources/package_updatable and open the file in TextEdit
5) Scroll to the bottom and find the line “found_valid_version=False”
6) Change False to True
7) Then delete all the text below until the start of “if not
found_valid_version:” Making sure that line is not deleted!
8) Close the window, it will ask if you want to overwrite the file. Say yes.
9) Close the finder window and then run the installer like normal.
10) Reboot.

The first launch of an Office app after this update will take forever, subsequent launches are much improved after that.

]]> By: Michael Thompson http://gigaom.com/collaboration/keep-an-eye-on-your-software-updates/#comment-75251 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:27:42 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3307#comment-75251 Hopefully this update cuts down launch time of their office apps. On Leopard, it takes longer to launch Word than it does to launch Illustrator and Photoshop combined.

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